Mysteries Of Killer Whales Uncovered In The Antarctic

Yale Environment 360:

Two of the world's leading experts on the world's top marine predator are now in Antarctica, tagging and photographing a creature whose remarkably cooperative hunting behavior and transmission of knowledge across generations may be rivaled only by humans.

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Comments

[Imago1122]

08:05 PM on 02/05/2012

It wasn't until the Nat Geo documentary "Killers in Eden" that orcas finally captured my interest---which is odd. I'd ignored them for other inhabitants of the seas. Only now do I truly appreciate their magnificence and in fact it wasn't that long ago that I learned killer whales don't comprise just one species but several. Fascinating study of an intriguing highly intelligent creature.

[yeti7]

10:09 AM on 02/05/2012

Interesting study.
Since these whales are very intelligent one they are probably get
po'ed about be shot at and tag that they are going to take a big bite
out of these guys one day. Hope they are prepared.

[sunsetter]

11:39 PM on 02/02/2012

And there is the obligatory "money line" -

This baseline data is particularly important since climate change and other human impacts, such as overfishing and the accumulation of toxic chemicals, are rapidly altering the whales’ habitats and their prey.